The Lunatic said:
Your heard that right folks, men are now a minority in PC gaming. According to a study by SuperData Research, 50.2% of all PC gamers are women.
That number spikes up to 53.6% for RPGs and 57.8% for Mobile games.
On the flip side, 66% of all FPS and MMO players are men.
Personally, I think it's a good sign that the PC Game Market has achieved an almost-equality in the gender distribution.
It also brings about an interesting change in perception of gaming as an activity, usually seen as "Something nerdy guys do" it's nice to see that the reality is rather more different. Whilst it has been the case for a long time that men and women seem to be more prominent in certain genres that other, it's nice to see the figures that finally support that.
However, I do caution that this is only one study and suggest people consider a number of sources before forming a firm overall opinion on the matter.
For those still reading, a few questions:
1. Why do you think more women play RPGs than men?
2. Why do you think more men FPSs than women?
3. Mobile, Social or "Casual" games are included in these numbers, do you think they should be discounted, if so, why?
Now, to any men reading the thread, I'll be handing out minority cards for you to use at your leisure. (Please don't hurt me female overlords, I'm joking.)
Source: Here! [http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/24894/article/women-play-more-pc-games-and-rpgs-than-men/]
This does not seem legit, mobile games I understand but RPGS is odd.
I'm not good at the peer review or any of this nonsense but a minimum of a 1000 sample size seems off
What defines the RPG in this sense, what were the questions asked, whom and with area group did they ask>
Where is the raw data, what are the age groups, can this be confirmed?
I don't know really, it seems very light for a formal positivist study but I don't have a lot to work with in both my experience with these sorts of studies and their published work.
I don't want to research this so I'm going to say, more time and patience is needed to be sure and this smells like some grade A cow pats.
>linked to gaming blog Owned by the company that owns time warner published this study.
No, no thank you, I doubt this study greatly.
Give time this will be proven to be correct or not anyway.
That being said it would not surprise me for most parts, the rpgs surprise me.
Also it's pretty nebulous what makes an rpg, perhaps If they included the sims and other life games then I can for sure expect the numbers to be that high.
But rpgs are weird.
The question of why men prefer Fps seems like a not much of a question if you would forgive my bluntness.
Men have greater preference for action, violence and the like.
Frat boys enjoy the FPS quite a lot.
FPS are competitive which if i am not mistaken men tend to prefer those sorts of games by nature.
I remember women not having eyes as adapted to detecting and responding to movement quickly but are able to see shades of colours deeper then the male can.
This is the sort of thing you could talk up a tree with the amount of conflicting but oddly harmonious information facts and figures laid out in lock step.
And a lot of it works under the banner of sexual dimorphism.
Sorry for the large spiel I've just been amassing data in that area and I've never been able to shut up about it when i get the chance.
The mobile games part is weird and I think that It should be discounted if we are doing with PC gaming, I mean if it's a mobile game then it's not a PC one. On top of that people don't take into account the time spent playing those games. For all we know it's little more then 10min on the subway.
Actually yeah I'd like to see a man hour split between men and women gamers, now that could be cool. Also a good indicator of ... something.
Oh and thanks for the Minority card, it feels good to have one.